All Decade Team 1950s AL

As we move through the decades, we are beginning to find putting the team together far more difficult. A couple of reasons might exist to explain why this is happening. First, the 50s (and 60s) introduced a huge crop of future hall of famers, so the talent pool increased significantly. Also, with this decade, we're starting to get more into players we know more about, or perhaps have even seen (...cough...Hersh...cough...). At the very least, more stories were handed down from the previous generation that we heard first-hand from relatives. There were definitely more disagreements for this all decade team, and they're only going to get tougher as we progress. Here's the team of the 50s for the American League.

The Indians back then were the 1950s equivalent of Roy Halladay, Cliff Lee, and Cole Hamels. Two Indians made the team, Bob Lemon and Early Wynn, and a third, Mike Garcia, was up for consideration. Oh yeah, they had a guy named Bob Feller too, but he began to tail off towards the middle of the decade. Still, three Hall of Famers for part of the decade makes for a pretty good pitching staff. Jackie Jensen also made the cut over Hall of Famer Al Kaline. Jensen had a really good decade, and we think Kaline is better suited to the 60s team.